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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. -- Bill Ayers
Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley. -- Wolfman Jack
It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group. -- Jimmy Carr
Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers. -- Richard Bach
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power. -- Dan Brown
Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause a groundswell movement against churches and Christian institutions that bear His name. -- Erwin McManus
Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine. -- Frederick William Robertson
Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child. -- Billy Crystal
Two thousand years ago, in the Middle East, an event occurred that permanently changed the world. Because of that event, history was split. Every time you write a date, you're using the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as the focal point. -- Rick Warren
Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world -- Annie Laurie Gaylor
Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time. -- Henry David Thoreau
Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my home. I'm just gon' sit at the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time. -- Otis Redding
Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again. -- Steve Coogan
Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming. -- Al Gore
Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer. -- Dennis Miller
The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years. -- Walter Jon Williams
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands. -- Simon Wiesenthal
I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits. -- Pete Rose
Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. -- Mitch Hedberg
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. -- Nathanael Emmons
I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw. -- Yayoi Kusama
The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason. -- Michael Feldman
Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions. -- Brad Sherman
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands. -- Jonas Mekas
I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked me two months ago or two days ago. -- Adam Mansbach
Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me. -- Martin Van Creveld
When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand. -- Reggie Jackson
The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. -- Robert Grosseteste
I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun. -- Babe Ruth
As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle. -- Rumi
When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair. -- David McCullough
Two seconds are a thousand years. -- Andre Kertesz
Almost two thousand years, and no new god! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One Galileo in two thousand years is enough. -- Pope Pius XII
Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons. -- Masaoka Shiki
Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots! -- Aldous Huxley
Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
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What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity. -- Gerald Stanley Lee
The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought. -- Muhammad Iqbal
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. -- George Bernard Shaw
The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them. -- Ernest Hemingway
Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born. -- James Henry Breasted
It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years. -- Rick Riordan
Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years. -- Rita Mae Brown
Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished. -- Samuel Johnson
Could a body broken and blood spilled two thousand years ago restore my own damaged life? -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand... -- Mother Teresa
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. -- Nathanael Emmons
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I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction. -- Mae West
I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years -- Isadora Duncan
Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later. -- Frank J. Prial
I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb. -- Thomas A. Edison
Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death. -- Tadeusz Borowski
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved. -- Voltaire
If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste? -- Cecil B. DeMille
I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years. -- Billy Sunday
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy -- Bertrand Russell
Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages. -- Amos Oz
There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago. -- David Mamet
The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility. -- Darrin Patrick
There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death. -- Ann Coulter
There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece. -- Dave Barry
The Christian life is the life of the Lord Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, lived now by Him in you! -- W. Ian Thomas
Do you think Christianity could have lasted for nearly two thousand years on its promises unless the Lord could deliver on them? -- Norman Vincent Peale
The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell. -- Red Smith
As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced. -- Abigail Solomon-Godeau
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years. -- Martha Graham
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist -- Pope John Paul II
The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... . -- Learned Hand
In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike. -- Paulo Coelho
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary. -- Remy de Gourmont
I waited two thousand years for you, Grace Alexander," he whispered in her ear. "And you were worth every second of it. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years? -- Billy Joel
You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against. -- Isabel Allende
Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country. -- Paul Ryan
Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two -- Devdutt Pattanaik
Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years. -- Tom Robbins
The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years. -- John Shelby Spong
If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible. -- Josette Sheeran
Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us. -- Leo Tolstoy
In 2000 the majority of people wanted me and Buchanan on the debates in two thousand. And me on the debates in 2004. have there been any polls? -- Ralph Nader
There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people. -- Jerry Seinfeld
If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets. -- Dejan Stojanovic
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon. -- Victor Hugo
If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two. -- Xun Zi
Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility? -- Umberto Eco
For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith. -- Richard Morris
What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history. -- Imre Kertesz
In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there. -- Gary Snyder
Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison. -- Ellen Hopkins
Not only two years, but even until twenty, two hundred, two thousand yearswe always have to be together.""because I have the members, I have never felt lonely. -- Yoochun
Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. -- Augustine Birrell
The two exist because of the One, But hold not even to this One; When the one Consciousness -is not disturbed, The ten thousand things offer no offence. -- Sengcan
Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand -- Mary Landrieu
If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years. -- Fred Bodsworth
A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more. -- Mordecai Richler
The old adage was true; the surest proof of the Faith is that it has survived for two thousand years....in spite of the men that run it. -- Val Bianco
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. -- Augustine Birrell
Too bad brooms can't really fly. Now if you miss the bus you can't just go in your room and fly to school with a nimbus two thousand! -- Rupert Grint
It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there. -- Patrick Stewart
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy. -- Augustine Birrell
Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory. -- Bernard Baruch
In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive. -- Anthony Burgess
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars. -- Guy Kawasaki
The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday ... -- Freya Stark
The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics. -- Imre Lakatos
I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers. -- E. F. Schumacher
I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel but I know what the ending will be already. -- Jonathan Trigell
I grew up in Montpelier, Indiana. It's a little town in the northeast corner of Indiana. It's a rural community; about two thousand people, a very much hometown U.S.A. kind of thing. -- Kevin A. Ford
Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence. -- Grandma Moses
With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Islamic tradition is full of examples of supporting the autonomy of women and the empowerment of women. Very few people know that in Islamic history there have been well over two thousand women jurists. -- Khaled Abou El Fadl
I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must still try to learn from history. History is ourselves. -- Kenneth Clark

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